Sausage-casing.



S. MAY.

SAUSAGE GASING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1912.

1,036,290. Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

invention;

`citizen of the United cago, in the county of Cook, State of Illiv In these drawings',

v"first, takethe intestines 1`,2, after 25 been-cured in saltjfand lsoak them fthen removed byscraping, but on Iin'si spout-as sho 4and sl1p it inside@y tact set, and vwhen' dry` soLoMoN MAY, orv omesso, AILLINOIS.

` sAUsAeE-.oasnm Specification of Letters lai'ieixht'l. Iiatented-Aug. 20, 1912.

Applioationvledliarch 7, 1912. i Serial No. v($182,310.

To all whom t may concern.' Be it known that I, 'SoLoMoN MAY, a

States, residing at Chinois, have invented certain new and useful vImprovements in Sausage-Casings, of which :the followin 1s a description, reference be- 'ing' had tol t e accompanying drawing and to the-figures of reference-markedthereon.

Myinvention relates to an improvement insausage casings, and consists in the matters hereinafter described' and referred to in the appended claims. n \The invention is illustrated in the accompaiying drawings, in which',- 1

gure 1- i's a perspective view of a sausage casing constructed iny accordance with my Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional vviews illustrating the manner of formin the same; and Fig. 4 is a view of a modi edv way of forming' the same.

'as shown inFig. 2, I they have in water, The fatis the instill left a layer of n turn one intestine 41 1 the left. of. Fig. 2, her.- AI then tie one g as at' 4 and distend from the other end, andv 'tie vthat end, leaving them in this'condition, '(see Fig. 3'),int11dry. During this drying`.operation, the slim surfaces in conho d the material in' 'rendering lthem soft and. pliable.

terior. surface ther material 3.1L;

end of thezd'oubl'e c As shownrin- Iilg. 4, instead of distending by use of air and then drying, I may cut the intestines open and stretch the two thicknesses ,with 'theislimy edgkeshin contact over a. hoard or frame 5. en suiciently stretched and dried, the ends may ,be

trimmed oii'- and the tube then severed lengthwise,'the edges overlapped, or turned in and stitched, as at 6, on a machlne, preferabl .1, andv t e tapered tube, is then cut into lengths suitable for the 4length of sausage desired. 1.

I do not claim herein the method of making sausage casings, as that forms the subject .matter of an ap lication filed by me of evenlfdatev herewith, erial N o. 682,311.

While in this ap lication and the companion application, I ave shown and descrlbed the ysausage casing as made of intestine material, it will be understood that I do not desire to be'lmited to this special material, as anyof the membranes ordinarily used for sausage casing's may be treated and made up in a similar manner.

Having thus described my' invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is:-

1. The herein described sausage casing, composed oftwo layers of intestine material, with their slimy surfaces in contact and dried, and with theirv edges stitched longitudinally.

2. The herein described sausage casing, composed vof intestines, with their inner walls in contact and adhering and with their longitudinal edges stitched to ether.

In testimony whereof, I a x my signa-l ture, in the presence of two witnesses.

. SOLOMON MAY.

Witnesses: e

JAMES S. Aem,

JNO. W. BURNS.

in tapered form, as shown in Fig. 

